Analysis of A Calendar of Sonnets: September
Helen Hunt Jackson 1830 (Amherst, Massachusetts) – 1885 (San Francisco)
O golden month! How high thy gold is heaped!
The yellow birch-leaves shine like bright coins strung
On wands; the chestnut's yellow pennons tongue
To every wind its harvest challenge. Steeped
In yellow, still lie fields where wheat was reaped;
And yellow still the corn sheaves, stacked among
The yellow gourds, which from the earth have wrung
Her utmost gold. To highest boughs have leaped
The purple grape,--last thing to ripen, late
By very reason of its precious cost.
O Heart, remember, vintages are lost
If grapes do not for freezing night-dews wait.
Think, while thou sunnest thyself in Joy's estate,
Mayhap thou canst not ripen without frost!
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Poetic Form | |
Metre | 1101111111 0101111111 11011011 11001110101 0101111111 0101011101 0101110111 011110111 0101111101 1101011101 1101010011 1111110111 111110101 111110011 |
Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
Characters | 658 |
Words | 111 |
Sentences | 8 |
Stanzas | 1 |
Stanza Lengths | 14 |
Lines Amount | 14 |
Letters per line (avg) | 37 |
Words per line (avg) | 8 |
Letters per stanza (avg) | 519 |
Words per stanza (avg) | 108 |
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Submitted on May 13, 2011
Modified on April 01, 2023
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